Apache httpd mod_ssl error "http request speaking HTTP to HTTPS port"

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Issue

  • We are seeing the following error in our ssl_error_log:

    [Mon Jan 05 15:57:29 2015] [info] SSL Library Error: 336027804 error:1407609C:SSL 
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request speaking HTTP to HTTPS port!?

  • Browser has returned "Bad Request" with the following message

    Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.

Environment

  • JBoss Web Server (httpd/Apache)
    • 2.2
    • 2.4
  • mod_ssl

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